He is then mandated to the Meistrich Psychiatric Institute, only to be released after three years, upon being deemed as totally cured. Howdy expresses to Mike that he is a man who lives without fear, because his one true wish in life is to be dead, and that pain is his only pleasure.Ĭaptain Howdy is revealed to be a local man named Carlton Hendricks, whom after a lengthy and controversial court case, is declared not guilty by reason of insanity. A brief struggle ensues in which Captain Howdy gets shot, subdued by Mike, and arrested. His body is heavily modified with extensive blackwork (tribal) body and facial tattoos, facial and body piercings, branding, and teeth filed to points. As Howdy is securing Genevieve's bonds, Mike comes to and Captain Howdy is revealed in his entirety for the first time. Strangeland movie soundtrack free#As Gage begins to free his daughter, he is ambushed from behind and momentarily knocked unconscious by Captain Howdy, and his gun bounces away from him as he falls. All having been tortured in various body-modification based ways. Gage enters the residence, and finds Captain Howdy's torture chamber, which has six local missing teenagers within nude, shackled, and "gagged" via their lips being sewn shut. The next morning, Howdy contacts Mike addressing him as "Cop", and toys with him further, but also gives away his location in the process. The plan goes awry, as Howdy has given them a false address, and the SWAT team busts in on an elderly couple having sex. Howdy invites Gage to the same party he invited Genevieve to. Angela assists her uncle in setting up a fake online profile, and posing as a student, he communicates with Captain Howdy, who deduces almost instantly that he's being baited. He contacts the web company, and gets the online-handle of the last person who his daughter spoke to. Mike's niece, Angela, accidentally tells him that both she and Genevieve have met guys online, which gives Mike his first solid lead. The results also deeply unsettle Mike, with the cause of the physical trauma being evident in puncture wounds all over Tiana's body, performed by a surgical needle.ĭays go by with no leads, and Toni does her best to cope with her daughter missing, as well as Mike appearing calloused by having to override his personal feelings regarding the case, to better serve Genevieve. Autopsy results on Tiana's remains surprises the detectives, in that it is shown she died of cardiac arrest stemming from a congenital defect, and brought on by extreme physical and emotional trauma. Unbeknownst to the Detectives, is that Captain Howdy is in attendance at the club, performing in a body suspension ritual in a back room. They investigate the club, but quickly realise that the size of the crowd, all of whom are modified to varying degrees, makes it a futile endeavor. He also gives them the location of a downtown nightclub, Xibalba ("Hell" in Mayan Culture), where the modified community hangs out. He proceeds to explain the modern primitive subculture to the detectives, and asserts that due size of the jewelry, the owner of it is a member of the community. Strangeland movie soundtrack driver#Detective Christianson discovers a large-gauge piece of body jewelry next to Tiana's corpse, that is identified as a "septum spike", by the heavily tattooed tow-truck driver on the scene. The case takes an unexpected turn when Tiana's car is pulled out of a lake, with her bloated body inside the trunk, and no sign of Genevieve. Mike is also largely ignorant of computers and the internet, and his early attempts to access Genevieve's computer, goes nowhere. The investigation is slow going, with there being nothing to really go on, as the party invite is unknown to him. She alerts her husband, Detective Mike Gage, who begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana with the assistance of his partner, Detective Steve Christianson. This troubles Toni, as she thought Genevieve was staying at Tiana's. Genevieve's mother, Toni, gets a call from Tiana's mother asking if she stayed overnight. Neither of them return home by the next morning. She shows Tiana his personal info, which indicates that he's their age and has similar interests, which allays Tiana's nerves. He invites the pair to a party at his house, and although Tiana is reluctant to go, Genevieve insists that times have changed, and that she is being overly cautious. Genevieve is a regular visitor to online chat rooms, and as the pair are hanging out one night, she begins chatting with an online friend who goes by the alias of Captain Howdy. Genevieve and her best friend, Tiana, are typical 15-year-olds living in Helverton, Colorado. Accordingly, a large amount of dialogue of the film's villain (concerning his personal philosophy) are paraphrases or direct quotations of Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement. The film has a strong emphasis on the Modern Primitive subculture, and its ethos of spiritual transcendence through painful rites, showing several such different practices therein.
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